The original Broadway production was an unprecedented box office and critical hit, receiving 12 Tony Award nominations and winning nine of them, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 6,137 performances. Revived on Broadway in 2006, it remains the longest running Broadway musical originally produced in the United States.

 

The Story: In an empty theatre, on a bare stage, casting for a new Broadway musical is almost complete. Before the final cut, the director asks the dancers their name, age and reason for being a dancer.  However, he wants more than just their resumes. He wants to know about their families, friends, lovers, ambitions and careers. From funny to heartbreaking, the dancers share their stories.

 

Grease is a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Grease was first written and performed in 1971. From there, it has been successful on both stage and screen. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School, follows ten working-class kids as they navigate the complexities of love, cars, and drive-ins. The score attempts to re-create the sounds of early rock and roll.

 

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 novel by L. Frank Baum, which has been adapted into several different works, the most famous being the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland. The Wizard of Oz was first performed as an on-stage musical in 1902-03 in Chicago and New York. The musical is unusual as it is sometimes very faithful to the book, but at other times departs drastically.

 

SPAMALOT is a musical comedy “lovingly ripped off from” the 1975 classic comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the legend of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table, yet it differs from the film in many ways. SPAMALOT‘s musical score was created by Eric Idle and John Du Prez. SPAMALOT is a Tony Award Winner for Best Musical in 2005. The title SPAMALOT comes from a line in the movie, which goes: "we eat ham, and jam and Spam a lot." Several sections in the script call for improvisation by the actors, including references to current events or local culture.